This year’s Oscar nominees for Best Live Action Short Film are the best in years, with a case made that any of these films could win. Four films reflect on the global issue of policing, protection, and law enforcement, with a fifth film focused on compassion for those different than ourselves.
Read MoreEmotionally draining, yet important and powerful, this year’s slate of Oscar nominated Documentary Short Subject films are moving tributes to people sacrificing their hearts, minds, and emotional wellbeing for the betterment of others.
Read MoreVoyagers may have a grand vision of young-adult, dystopian science-fiction adventure, but the film never establishes enough credibility to make this matter all that much.
Read MoreEmma Seligman’s Shiva Baby crackles with electricity in a tense, darkly comedic story of a 20-something young woman attending a family shiva, only to have her past and present complicate the afternoon.
Read MoreWhile there will be some who simply are satisfied by Godzilla and Kong’s Hoss Fights, Godzilla vs. Kong is a movie that underwhelms and underperforms in virtually every way.
Read MoreAs absurd and violent as it is, Nobody is a stylish, throwback, action thriller which lets Bob Odenkirk become the action movie star you never knew you needed him to be.
Read MoreThough not from a lack of trying, basketball drama BOOGIE wants to be a hard-scrabble story where a main character overcomes the obstacles, but the film simply fails to deliver effectively on those intentions.
Read MoreRaya and the Last Dragon is a rousing fantasy adventure for viewers of all ages, providing meaningful messages, important representation and a simply fantastic visual experience.
Read MoreOne of the best music documentaries of recent memory, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry is an honest, forthcoming look at the trajectory the 17-year-old pop star found herself on as she became the most popular performer in the world in 2019.
Read MoreThe 2021 reboot of Tom & Jerry is a poorly executed movie which makes one wonder what the point of bringing back two animated characters was when they simply exist to prop up an uninteresting story of human beings treating each other poorly.
Read MoreObnoxious, absurd, and absolutely hilarious, Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo deliver two memorable comedic creations in Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar.
Read MoreThe Map of Tiny Perfect Things is a fun, endearing, better-than-average young adult romantic comedy about two teenagers trying to figure out why they are caught up together in a time loop.
Read MoreWhen a young woman suffers sexual assault, her boyfriend tries to help by arranging medical tests and appointments for her in Shatara Michelle Ford’s stunning, can’t miss debut film.
Read MoreA blistering, powerful look at Fred Hampton’s youthful rise and fall as a Black Panther Party leader, JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH is not to be missed.
Read MoreOne of 2020’s best films, Minari is a beautiful, bittersweet look at a Korean-American family’s pursuit of the perceived American Dream in 1980s Arkansas.
Read MoreSerbia’s Oscar hopeful, Dara of Jasenovac, is a bleak, relentless look at the atrocities committed at the Jasenovac Concentration Camp during World War II, as seen through the eyes of a young girl.
Read MoreColin Firth and Stanley Tucci are terrific in this moving drama about a couple coming to terms with a partner’s increasing cognitive decline.
Read MoreThe Little Things is a serial killer murder mystery which feels like so many movies of the past and offers a trio of characters we could not care less about if we tried.
Read MoreWonder Woman 1984 is a major disappointment, a misfire that doesn’t require us to throw out the baby with the bathwater, but does appear to need a significant reboot just two movies into the franchise.
Read MorePromising Young Woman is a taut, subversive film, unapologetic in analyzing revenge, trauma, and mental and emotional pain, brilliantly conceived by writer/director Emerald Fennell, with a career-best performance by Carey Mulligan.
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